Programs by Date

2007

Sunday 12 Aug 2007

The partitioning of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 was a moment that changed the lives of millions, led to communal violence on a scale that was unprecedented and to one of the great movements of people the world has ever seen.

Sunday 29 Jul 2007

The current tension between Russia and the United States over nuclear weapons in Europe prompts Rear Vision to revisit the arms race that accompanied the Cold War and the Doomsday Clock that shadowed it.

Sunday 22 Jul 2007

It was 40 years ago, 16 July 1969, that man first walked on the moon. This major event was a culmination of the struggle during the 1950s and 60s for technological and military supremacy, on land and in space, between the then USSR and the US. In this program we hear the story of the race for supremacy in space.

Sunday 15 Jul 2007

Early elections have been called in Turkey to resolve a political crisis that arose over the possibility that a politician whose wife wears a headscarf would become President. What effect will the vote on 22nd July have on the tension between secularists and Islamists that goes back to the founding of the modern state in 1923?

Sunday 8 Jul 2007

Over the past 9 years Melbourne has been in the grip of a gangland war, resulting in almost 30 murders and what has shocked even the most battle hardy crime watcher has been the brazen nature of many of these murders. But as we will learn in this week's program, organised crime and gang violence has a long and rather colourful history in the two biggest cities in Australian - Sydney and Melbourne.

Sunday 1 Jul 2007

As the Prime Minister takes radical action to address problems in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Rear Vision looks at the history of Aboriginal life in the bush since white settlement.

Sunday 24 Jun 2007

Gordon Brown -- widely viewed as a dour enigma -- becomes Britain's new prime minister next week. Who is Gordon Brown and will he be able to shake off the baggage from his ten year political marriage with Blair?

Sunday 17 Jun 2007

As the end of the financial year rolls around, Rear Vision looks at the history of taxation and especially the tax on incomes, which makes up the lion's share of money collected by Australian governments.

Sunday 10 Jun 2007

On 3rd June 1992 the High Court delivered its decision in the Mabo Case. The judgment rejected the legal fiction of Terra Nullius and gave recognition to the notion of Native Title. Rear Vision this week looks at the impact the Mabo decision has had on Australia and the Indigenous community.

Podcasts and Feeds

Feature Articles

Tens of thousands of foreigners are currently fighting in the conflict in Iraq and Syria. While foreign fighters might be making headlines now, there’s nothing new about the phenomenon. Erica Vowles traces the history of Australians fighting overseas from the Spanish Civil War to today.

As Iran reaches a historic deal with six major world powers to rein it its nuclear program, Rear Vision takes a look back at how the country's nuclear industry first began—with help from the United States.

Last month’s announcement that Energy Resources Australia will pull the plug on the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory signals the end of one of the most controversial chapters in Australian mining history. Keri Phillips traces the history of uranium mining in Australia.